--- Wonders have been made by Google. Now, its time to astonish the world with what you can do with Google Apps and Google Driver API. Google presents developers with a new challenge to explore in the following exciting categories.

The developers of any age group all over the world are welcome to submit their apps following these criteria:

1> Should make effective use of the Google Apps and/or Google Drive APIs2> Originality in the concept3> Relevance to region where you belong4> Finishing and appeal of the app5> Indispensability: Is the application compelling and/or essential?

Judgement & Awards:

First Round: At most 10 apps from each of the 3 categories in all 6 regions (at most 30 apps total per region) will move to the semi-finals. Applications will be evaluated and ranked by a team of Google-selected internal and external judges.

Semi-Finals: Those developers whose applications are selected for the semi-finals will have about one month to improve their applications (add features, improve stability, performance, etc). By October 25th, developers in the semi-finals will submit the final versions of their apps for judgement.

At the end of the judgement period, all applications in each region and category will be evaluated and ranked by a team of Google-selected judges and announced on November 12th.

Awards:

Prizes will be distributed as follows (all prizes are in USD):

Round One: All teams that make it to the semi-finals in each category in each region will be awarded Chromebooks.

Round One: In order to encourage participation from women and highlight innovations from women in the developing markets, Google will award an additional prize. If a Semi-Finalist happens to be an individual or a team consisting solely of women, that team will be awarded an additional prize of $1000 USD.

Round One: Any university team made up entirely of student or staff of a university (identified by the university domain email address) that makes it to the semi-finals will get $1,000.

Semi-Finals: 1st prize in each category in each region will receive $20,000. This means that there will be a total of 18 grand prize winners.

Semi-Finals: If any team from a university wins the competition in any of the categories, the department to which the members of the team belong will win $18,000.